John eitz



(No Model.)

J. RITZ.

PLOW.

No. 297,450. Patented Apr. 22, 1884.

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JOHN RITZ, OF GOIVANDA, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TC \VILLIAM DAUBER, OF SAME PLACE.

- PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,450, dated April 22, 1884.

' Application liled December 10, 1883. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom, it may concern: I mold-board, and secured thereto by bolts h h,

Be it known that I, J OHN RITZ, of Gowanda, respectively. The ears 9 g are constructed in the county of Erie, in the State of New York, I with upright slots t 1', through which the bolts have invented a new and useful Improvement h h pass, so that, upon loosening these bolts,

in Plows, of which the following is a specifithe brace G can be raised and lowered on the cation. landside and mold-board, thereby raising and This invention relates to certain new and lowering the handles D D, supported on this useful improvements in plows; and it has for brace. The handles D D are secured to the its object to provide a simple device for adbrace G- by boltsj j, which pass through hori- IO justably securing the handles to the plow, so zontal slots 7; k, formed lengthwise in the that they can be adjusted both horizontally brace G. The proper adjustment of the hanand vertically, said device serving at the same dles D D to suit the height of the person using time to connect the mold-board and landside the plow is effected by raising or lowering the in a strong and substantial manner. brace G on the landside and mold-board, and

I5 WVith these objects in view my invention the handles may be adjusted from right to left, 6 consists in the improvements hereinafter fully or vice versa, when it is desired to change the described and specifically claimed. draft of the plow, by loosening the bolts j j In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is and changing the position of the handles on a perspective view of a plow provided with the brace G. The lower ends of the handles 20 my improvements. Fig. 2is a horizontal sec- D D, which are secured in the socket F, are tion of the plow. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, rounded off, as shown in Figs. 3'and 4, to perand Fig. 4 a horizontal section, of the socket mit of alimited horizontal and vertical movein which the lower ends of the handles are sement of the handles in the socket F, which is cured. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of said necessary in adjusting said handles.

25 socket. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the The braces E and G can be reversed and brace connecting the mold-board to the landused, either side up, by changing the ears of side. the braces to conform to the curvature of the Like letters of reference denote like parts mold-board. My improved adjusting device in the several figures. avoids the casting of lugs or projections on 0 A represents the plowbeam. B represents the mold-board, and is therefore especially So the landside, and O the mold-board, all ofany adapted for use on steel plows, but may also suitable or well-known construction. be applied to plows of cast or chilled iron.

D D represent the handles, having their Straight handles can be applied to plows lower ends arranged between the landside provided with my improvements, and as the 5 and mold-board in a well-known manner. handles are hung in the center of the plow E represents abracc extending transversely the plow is more easily handled than when from the lower front portion of the landside they are attached to the sides.

to the lower front portion of the mold-board, The braces E and G secure the mold-board and provided with a socket, F, which receives and landside firmly together.

40 the lower ends of the handles D D. This I am aware that a slotted brace extending 9o braceEandsocketFarepreferably constructed from the landside to the mold-board, and fitin one piece of cast-iron. The braceE is proting with its end against a lug on the moldvidedwith earsce, fitted, respectively, against board, is not new; but it is well known that the inner sides of the landside and mold-board, there is great difficulty in forming these lugs 5 and secured thereto by bolts f f. on steel mold-boards, and I am enabled by the G represents a brace extending from the upuse of my construction of the braces to place per rear portion of the landside to the upper the ends of the braces directly against the rear portion of the mold-board. This brace smooth inner sides of the mold-boards, thus is provided at its ends with ears 9 g, fitted rendering unnecessary the forming of any lugs 50 against the inner sides of the landside and or projections upon the mold-board. IOO

I claim as my invention lower ends of the handles D D are secured, re The combination, with the landside 13, substantially as set forth.

mold-board O, and handles D D, of a brace, Witness my hand this 27th day of Novem- Gr, provided with horizontal slots k k and ber, 1883.

5 ears 9 g, having upright slots & i, the ear T 9 being fitted directly against the inner side JOHL RITZ' of the mold-board, and a brace, E, having a Witnesses:

socket, F, formed upon the upper part of said FRED J. BLAOKMAN,

brace and integral therewith, in which the WILLIAM DANBER. 

